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Arkansas, It’s Time to Dive Deep: A Review of Disaggregated Data Shows the Real Risks Arkansas’s Black and Brown Children Are Currently Facing 

The KIDS COUNT Data Book tracks children’s well-being across four domains and 16 indicators. The topline numbers are not encouraging — overall, Arkansas ranks 45th in child well-being. However, the disaggregated data […]

Learn About the History and Culture that Hispanic Heritage Month Brings

Hispanic Heritage Month is unique in that it runs between two months every year, from September 15 to October 15. Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15 to coincide with […]

Arkansas Children Are Left Behind by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Child Tax Credit

No child should face the crushing effects of poverty, and an Arkansas child tax credit will make a tremendous difference.

The Overlooked School Supply: Medicaid

Earlier this month, Arkansas students and teachers returned to the classroom. Lunches were packed, backpacks filled, and buses rolled out for the start of a new school year. But behind […]

How and When the OBBBA will Harm Arkansans

The impact of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will be enormous and wide-reaching in Arkansas. Our higher poverty rates mean cuts to health care coverage and food assistance will […]

Arkansas, We Need a Plan for Our Kids

In addition to our lack of state investment, we are also potentially facing the largest funding cut to critical programs in our nation’s history.

U.S. Senate’s Budget Bill Would Take Away Health Care from at Least 140,000 Arkansans, Put Parents and Kids at Risk of Hunger

We need our Congressional delegation to stand up for Arkansas and reject this reckless plan that will devastate our fellow Arkansans.